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Anna Jane Salamy

Anna was born on May 29, 2002.
She was diagnosed with Hepatoblastoma on February 24, 2005. She had a liver resection the next day and then went through four rounds of
chemotherapy. The chemotherapy failed to fully remove the cancer so she had a living-donor liver transplant at DuPont Children's Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware on June 24, 2005. Anna's cancer came back in her new liver in May 2006. She received a second liver on July 23, 2006. Unfortunately, this too, failed to remove all of the cancer. Anna had surgeries in Feb and May of 2007 to try to remove the rest of the cancer, but they were unsuccessful.
Anna flew to Jesus on November 25, 2007.


We will always be sorry that she died.
We will never be sorry that she lived.


I have set up a new website to chronicle the new chapter in our family's life. Anna's life and death is a part of who we are, but it's not the end of our story. We have to go on without her--not leaving her behind--but sending her on ahead.

Thank you for caring about our story and allowing it to touch your lives.

If this is your first time to visit this website, please feel free to read from the beginning and get to know our incredible, insightful, and intelligent little girl. If you are visiting this site because you are grieving, feel free to skip to November 25, 2007 and follow our journey to life after death.

Journal

Sunday, November 25, 2012 8:49 AM CST

Five years ago today I was holding my daughter while she died.
I don't want to remember.
I don't want to forget.
It felt like I was in labor.
Hours and hours of painful waiting.
Holding her in our bed.
My other children coming in to say goodbye.
Kissing her over and over.
Whispering love in her ear.
Crying out to God.
"I can't do this!"
Not believing that it was really happening.
Waiting for a miracle.
Waiting for death.
When it finally came there was sweet release.
It is finished.
Birthed from this life to the next.
For her
Freedom.
Restoration.
Redemption.
For me
Grief.
Loss.
Emptiness.
Learning to live without a part of myself was hard.
Is hard.
Do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen.
What is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
Today I wait with hope.
I press on with perseverance.
I laugh.
I love.
I live.
And I remember.

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Links:

http://www.salamyspressingon.blogspot.com   What is Anna's family doing today? Click here to follow their new adventure as they press on towards Heaven.
http://www.annajanesroom.blogspot.com   Look here for pictures of Anna's Room at OU Children's Hospital
http://www.kidsartetc.com/galleryinterior.asp?schoolOrg=Art+with+a+Heart+2008   Click here if you would like to order an item with Anna's butterfly painting on it.


 
 

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